The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-12-28
Fife wheat yielded AZ bushels per


6s bushels Fer acre; barley G5 bushels per
acre.
VIM. Black raised 5000 pounds of
squash and 5000 pounds of onions this
year,
Matt Nieble, West Gallatin, had ten
acres of Scotch Fife wheat that yielded
50 bushels per acre.
Isaac Williams Of Bear Creek, threshed
over $4,000 bushels. of barley, wheat and
oats from 225 acres.
Mr.. Sanborn reports the fastest
ten honr run of the year he having
threshed 1886 bushels of oats in that
time.
Uncle John Howes threshed 34} bus
heels of Scotch Fife wheat Der acre from
his foot-hill ranch near town. He got
70 cents per bushel for his crop.
Chas. Overstreet threshed from 6S
acres 1878 of oats and wheat. From SO
acres of sod spring blowing, he threshed
1,173 bushels of oats and wheat-prin.
cipally wheat.
Ex-Commissioner Hutchins IN thresh-
ed Dog bushels of two.rowed barley from
10 acres At least one-third OF the crop
was left upon the ground, he being I'M.
able to reap it.
A portion of Mr.. Weaver's oats, raised
upon ground that hasbeen under c~ultiva-
tion for % years, averaged 81 bushels
p,r acre. Mr.. W. is also a sue, essfuI
raiser of small traits,
W. H.. Stevens, raised, alb out 700 bush.
els of potatoes on less than two acres.
He also raised 1854 bushels of oats,
wheat and barley from 40 acres, from the
work OF one man and TWO horses.
William Perks o fMoreland has a small
fell of alfalfa from which he cut three
crops this year. Mr.. Perks informs us
that with another irrigation he could
have cut the fourth crop before frost
came.
J.C. Hardin, whose ranch adjoins the
TOWNSHIP of Bozeman, raised from 10
acres, $500 bushels of oats, wheat and
barley. Fife wheat averaged 80 bushels
to the acre-much of it being shelled out
by the wind.
Rev. David Walker. Central Park, has
had wonderful success in growing vege.
tables this year, cabbages that weighed
from fifteen TO twenty pounds, turnips
eight to twelve pounds, potatoes, beets
and radishes in proportion.
Alternately Bros, Real Middle Creek,
threshed 5000 bushels of oats from fifty
acres. a portion of their oats that was
sowed upon fall blowing averaged So
bushels per acre, 20 acres, of their Scotch
Fife averaged 424 bushels per acre.
W. S. (scott) Matthews reports the
largest yield of oats from that number of
pounds sown, OF any farmer in the valley.
From 3,4lS pounds OF seed he threshed
4.2+5 bushels of oats. The averaged
yield of oats was ABOUT "a bushels per
acre.
Z. Morse, ,hreshed $3.50 bushels of
wheat and oats upon 125 acres. Mr.. NJ.
has twenty acre of small fruits, one
half acre being raspberries, from which
expects to gather 100 bushels next year
He will enlarge his orchard by 100 more
apple trees in the spring.
Jno. d, Hufine, from his ranch il
sight of Bozeman, raised AGO bushels o
grain from 81 acres. From 10 acres he
raised 665 bushels of Fife wheat, also 81,
acres of barley, Besides this heav,
yield, he had $50 tons of tiiLothy hay
from so acres of meadow land.
Ed. H.. Couch. near Cottonwood, ha,
twenty acres of oats that yielded 2.OS
bushels forty acres of oats that yielle,
3,l64 bushels, the above was raised upol
summer fallowed ground. Ills entir
crop 140 acres of oats, wheat and barle.
threshed out S,641 bushels. Mr.. Goucl
has sold his barley fer Ito per hundred
John and Hank Borders raised til
largest barley crop grown in the valley,
crop that averaged them $43 per acr'
From % acres they raised S4,l2O pound
which they sold for 81 20 per hundre
, pounds. From 104 acres they raised B
! $50 bushels of oats, wheat ami barley
: their oat crop averaged 81 bushels pr
acre.
From one and one.fourth acres NJ
Thos. Ralph raised over 500 bushels
potatoes that weighed or an average
two to three pounds apiece! This seen
almost increditable even in this vale
but we are assured BY Mr.. Ralph's neigl
bors as well as himself that the aboy
f figures are correct. They were sacke
while being picked, the full sacks almo
covering the ground.
VALLEYS WEALTH.